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...tawdry tale has proved a minor embarrassment for the White House. In her court papers, Morgan alleged that Bloomingdale's satin pillow talk included details of how he got campaign contributions for Reagan. She also told a newspaper interviewer that Betsy first learned of her husband's infidelity from Nancy Reagan, which was emphatically denied by a Reagan aide. The White House's discomfiture rose even higher when it was disclosed that Marvin Mitchelson, the well-known palimony lawyer who briefly represented Morgan, had discussed the case with Morgan Mason, special assistant to the President. Mitchelson says...
...pillow-by-pillow, faucet-by-faucet basis, the suites are not as hugely expensive as they seem. A few small rooms rent for $145, just the thing for bodyguards. The Royal Suite has two living rooms, five bedrooms with at least ten closets, and seven bathrooms. Even so, some visitors find its 4,844 sq. ft. oppressively small. One sheik had to rent two other suites to accommodate his baggage...
...perhaps, if fortune turns her face in kindness upon me before I go, I may chance, some quiet day, to lay my over-beating temples on a book, and so have the death I most envy." Plato was reputedly found dead with a book under his pillow, Petrarch in his library with his elbow resting on an open page. Books gave them more than solace. They were their lives extended, a way of touching eternity. "Go, litel book!" wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde, sending his work on a journey that no man could complete...
...Austria, he has run war criminals to earth. A Holocaust research institute in Los Angeles bears his name, and celebrities rush to salute his work. Frank Sinatra's tribute is typical: "I would gladly give up every song I ever sang to rest my head on the pillow of your accomplishments...
...Israelis tried to exterminate us." "It's not their land. It's our land," says Jamila. Her voice is urgent. As the questions continue, she notices that her American visitor is sitting in an uncomfortable position. Without a word she rises and slips a pillow behind his back...